Biofuel Bad Boys: Is environmentalism bad for the environment?

Biofuel policies are hurting the environment and rural people, says the BBC.

European Union policies promoting biofuels are resulting in the displacement of native peoples, the cutting down of forests, a rise if food costs, and an increase of carbon emissions. In Malindi, Kenya, the bulldozers have moved in in order to clear the land of the local people which has been handed over to an Italian company to grow Jatropha, a plant that, according to some reports, increases carbon emissions.

But it's all okay. The important thing is not that environmental policies actually improve the environment. The most important thing is that liberals feel good about themselves, and this can be accomplished by simply passing laws and implementing policies with really good titles on them that make them sound as if they will actually do something.

Then everyone can go home and pretend they really did something, even though they really didn't.

Once you realize these things, everything makes sense.

Some groups are "green" in more ways that one

Like I've always said: Follow the money. There are big profits to be made in green technology, and the multi-national corporations aren't leaving anything to chance. And many Green groups, who purport to be independent voices on environmental issues, may well be on the take.

And why is it that the President of BP, yes that BP, is on the advisory board of the Earth Institute?

Check out the Times Higher Education Supplement for an eye-opening exposé.

HT: Bishop Hill

"Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt."--Washington Post, Nov. 2, 1922

John Lockwood, upon discovering numerous such newspaper headlines in the 1920's and 30's, which turn out to have encompassed the ten hottest years in modern times.

Don't think you'll see this in Al Gore's next fancy slide show on global warming.